Joan Van Ark
Joan Van Ark
Joan Van Ark is an American actress, known for her role as Valene Ewing on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. A life member of The Actors Studio, she made her Broadway debut in 1966 in Barefoot in the Park. In 1971, she received a Theatre World Award and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the revival of The School for Wives...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth16 June 1942
CountryUnited States of America
Joan Van Ark quotes about
relationships
Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years.
less strongest val women
They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out.
friends-or-friendship great
I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.
understood
It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.
church presbyterians
I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.
quests conscious arcs
Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.
starts
When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.